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Peter King | Former Congressman | 07-15-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here. He is the former amazing Congressman Homeland Security, our
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  Speaker 1: staple on Wednesday mornings, my guy, Peter King. Pete, first
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  Speaker 1: of all, thank you for that lovely message you sent
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  Speaker 1: me a couple of days ago after day one of
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  Speaker 1: my son Gabriel working with Bruce Blakeman. It was very,
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  Speaker 1: very nice, and I will tell you that as Kaby
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  Speaker 1: gets set for day three with the next governor, he
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  Speaker 1: loves the job. He loves Bruce, and Bruce has been
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  Speaker 1: making ways. Now down by just five or six points,
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  Speaker 1: things are looking good, Pete King for Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Bruce is really on the move. And i'moun just
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  Speaker 2: say as far as your family, I've met all four
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  Speaker 2: of you and there's no doubt who the bottom person is.
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  Speaker 2: That's you. And it's a tie for number one with
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  Speaker 2: Danny hell gave and it really is. Talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I get on the top of the league in the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the league. He's got great. He gave us great.
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  Speaker 2: He really is. Remember the night we were in a
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  Speaker 2: Duelo's and Gabe was there with his friend. I was there,
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  Speaker 2: your grandson Josh was up. You and Melia are arm wrestling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I gave it. Jack and trucking back and forth. You
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  Speaker 2: argue with the way it is. We sat in John
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  Speaker 2: Gotti's table.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrific we did. That was the after Gotty and
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  Speaker 1: Sammy had Paul Castelano rubbed out at Spark Steakhouse. People
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  Speaker 1: don't know this, but God, he called an emergency meeting
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  Speaker 1: of the five families, like at like one o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and they had it at guard Julo's in
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  Speaker 1: Cony Island and we sat at that exact table. You
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  Speaker 1: still remember that, you love that Pete.
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  Speaker 2: Right, That was a great time, really was it was.
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  Speaker 1: And look, Bruce is up in the northern part of
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  Speaker 1: the state today. You know. I called him last night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. I called him to say,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should consider reaching out to a lease to
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  Speaker 1: Phonic and getting her endorsement. Now. I've reached out to
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  Speaker 1: Alise a couple of times over the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: He had a new book out and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: help her promote her book. She did not answer any
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  Speaker 1: of my requests. Anie, she hates me, and truth be told,
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  Speaker 1: I think Bruce also reached out to her and he
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  Speaker 1: got nothing. So even though I thought it may have
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  Speaker 1: been a good idea. It looks like she's on green.
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  Speaker 1: She's resentful, and I don't know why she should have
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  Speaker 1: stayed in the race. She had plenty of money upwards
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  Speaker 1: a fifteen million dollars, plenty of support in the northern
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  Speaker 1: part of the state, but like a coward, she jumped out.
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  Speaker 1: And Bruce Blakeman is fighting the good fight. So in
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  Speaker 1: the end he's the hero. No, he really is.
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  Speaker 2: And Bruce is doing a great job. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: you and I have comments done before about some of
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans who said Bruce can't win. Bruce, Bruce's doing
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  Speaker 2: a great job. He's going everywhere. Yeah, he started off
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  Speaker 2: twenty points behind. That makes sense. She's the incumbany, he's not.
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  Speaker 2: The fact is, when he ran against lower current, who
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  Speaker 2: was much more popular than Kathy Hooker, was Bruce's twenty
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  Speaker 2: four points behind. That was the same thing over the summer.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long, hot slog doing that. But when he's
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  Speaker 2: out there every day, every day, Bruce is just picking
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  Speaker 2: up votes everywhere he goes. She's losing votes every time
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  Speaker 2: people see her, hear from her. So no, this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be to me a big victory. Bruce in November.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans have to stay united. As far as the Lease,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what happened there. I mean I was
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  Speaker 2: always friendly with a Lease in the House. Uh, she
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  Speaker 2: was good to work with. We run the Intelligence Committee together,
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden she was out of
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  Speaker 2: the race. I mean Bruce was was actually that said
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  Speaker 2: party that there's where police have SA said that I.
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  Speaker 1: Know that grul, You'll buy me fortender every year with
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  Speaker 1: those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So I was out there this year, Bruce was there,
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  Speaker 2: was there, and he was going to go upstate the
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  Speaker 2: next day on his campaign. But probably we knew at
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  Speaker 2: that moment Elise was still in the race. Then Bruce says,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm here and if she made back
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  Speaker 2: out as what and come on? But you know, I
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  Speaker 2: just thought he's being overly confident. And the next thing
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  Speaker 2: I know, next day, she dropped out. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what that was about. The nerve and I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think she got mad at Trump because
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  Speaker 1: Trump was not going to endorse her over Bruce, no way.
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  Speaker 1: But there man some other things too. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care at this point all I know is
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  Speaker 1: You know Mike Lauda was going to run, but he
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  Speaker 1: backed out because Trump wanted him in Congress. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce is our guy, and I think he's a tremendous candidate,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's going to beat her. But of
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  Speaker 1: course we're going to see. Got a lot of months
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  Speaker 1: ahead of us. I do want to get to Israel
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  Speaker 1: because I did have bb on this show a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago. When you're a staunch pro Israel advocate.
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  Speaker 1: I know you heard the conversation with me and Bibi
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  Speaker 1: and he said, look, me and President Trump, we've never
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  Speaker 1: been better. Two days that friends, even family members tend
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  Speaker 1: to argue. Whether it's Turkey or Iran, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: We've never been better. So my question is, be because
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  Speaker 1: you've been in these rooms before with the biggest leaders
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  Speaker 1: in the world, do you believe them.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that they still are closed, probably not as
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  Speaker 2: close as they should be. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: be critical of President Trump, but I think sometimes he
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  Speaker 2: overreacts to me life is not as he looks upon things.
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  Speaker 2: In the real estate deal, so he can work out
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  Speaker 2: something involving Iran and Israels happens to be in the way.
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  Speaker 2: It annoys him when Yao who says no, he can't
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  Speaker 2: do that. I mean, we can't just say that Israel
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  Speaker 2: leuts to stop attacking Hesbella. I mean the fact is
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  Speaker 2: that that they are a main They are a direct
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  Speaker 2: threat to Israel and Iran is somehow by trying to
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  Speaker 2: work out a deal between Iran and the United States
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  Speaker 2: and excluding Israel and Hesbella that tremendously weakens Israel. Israel
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  Speaker 2: has to have the right to go into Lebanon after
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  Speaker 2: Hezbollah that what is Israel care about Lebanon. They don't
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  Speaker 2: care at all. They're not trying to pick up more
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  Speaker 2: property or more territory. But that's where the enemy is
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  Speaker 2: hesbelas as a sanctuary in Lebanon, and they attack Israel.
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  Speaker 2: So I can understand President Trump looks at things much
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  Speaker 2: more for a deal. Let's make the deal and we
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  Speaker 2: can worry about Hezbolla later on. Well, Bob doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: that luxury because he is where every day about rockets
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  Speaker 2: coming in from whether I'm because from Hezbela. So listen,
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  Speaker 2: they get along as well as any two world leaders can.
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  Speaker 2: But I think when it comes crunch time, you have
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  Speaker 2: to stay together. Even if there is individual differences, you
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  Speaker 2: got to resolve that. And I think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be resolved in the big picture when this is finally written.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see the Israel and United
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  Speaker 2: States and Trump and that Yahoo stood together.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. But my fear is JD. Vans. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: t having this conversation with a person yesterday opments to work.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say where in the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: loves Vance. I go why, And after my ten minute conversation,
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  Speaker 1: they were like, yeah, yeah, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I don't trust JD. Vans, I mean either to me,
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  Speaker 2: he was against this from the start. He's one of
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  Speaker 2: those isolationists and the attucking cars in the wing that
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  Speaker 2: somehow looks upon Israel as being an impediment to peace
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  Speaker 2: rather than our main ally in the Middle East. And
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  Speaker 2: then you have I keep going back to this, what
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  Speaker 2: does Steve Whitcock do in negotiating with Iran? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about one of the most sophisticated diplomatic people
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  Speaker 2: in the world of the Iranians. They've been doing this
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  Speaker 2: for forty seven years. They've been stringing people along. They
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  Speaker 2: are experts at negotiations, and we have a guy in
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  Speaker 2: there who just wants to close the deal. And when
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  Speaker 2: you close the deal, you do it fifty to fifty
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  Speaker 2: sixty forty. You can't do that in then at least
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  Speaker 2: is no such thing as having a deal with Iran
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  Speaker 2: because their goal was to destroy us and Israel. Israel's
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  Speaker 2: first were second, and it's we need somebody who understands that.
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  Speaker 2: Now somebody looks upon it as a real estate deal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's no deal here anyway. I mean, I said
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  Speaker 1: this on Fox News a couple of weeks ago, say
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  Speaker 1: it on the air every day. I think President Trump
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  Speaker 1: may be upset with me. I'll find out when I
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  Speaker 1: see him on Saturday. There was never a deal to
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  Speaker 1: be made here. There was no way in a million years,
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  Speaker 1: in a million years, and people should know better that
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  Speaker 1: Iron was going to do a deal, and if they
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  Speaker 1: did a deal, they were not going to comply. So
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  Speaker 1: what President Trump is doing right now is what he
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  Speaker 1: should have done two months ago, on that Tuesday night
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  Speaker 1: when he made that very very first promise, and that
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  Speaker 1: is blow the doors off these bastards. I'm sorry we
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  Speaker 1: did it. World War two, innocent Germans died, innocent Japanese
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  Speaker 1: died this idea. Now that, oh my god, if somebody die,
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  Speaker 1: what a horrible thing. This is war. We didn't start it.
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  Speaker 1: Those bastards did forty seven years ago. Let's finish them.
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  Speaker 1: Bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: Also, to me, it doesn't make sense to say that
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  Speaker 2: we're the most powerful military in the world and we
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  Speaker 2: can't open the straights of her moves if at the
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  Speaker 2: end of all this, the straits of a moves are
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  Speaker 2: not controlled by us, and if Iran as anything to
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  Speaker 2: say about it at all, we have lost the war
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  Speaker 2: because they can bring the world economy to a halt
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  Speaker 2: anytime they want to shut down the straight of her moves.
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  Speaker 2: So we have to guarantee that they have no control
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  Speaker 2: with it all, that they are totally under control of
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  Speaker 2: the United States or Israel or Gulf countries. It cannot
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  Speaker 2: be Iran. So that isn't just a technicality. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why when you go back to that memory of understanding,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, basically, it does give Iran power over the strangers,
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  Speaker 2: says they'll work it out. They won't do this for
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  Speaker 2: sixty days. They should have nothing to say about it,
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  Speaker 2: and they never did, and they never should. Now we
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  Speaker 2: yield at it all that to me is like losing
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  Speaker 2: the war.
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  Speaker 1: Agreed in the final couple of seconds. Pete, as an
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  Speaker 1: amazing member of Congress all these years. I know that
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  Speaker 1: you knew the man very well, very well. I saw
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  Speaker 1: your posts after he tragically passed away the death of
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  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham. Real Americans, patriots, great Americans. They're upset the
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  Speaker 1: morons out there who hate American, hate Israel, and hate
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  Speaker 1: anything that you know that has to do with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: standing up for our country. They hated his guts. Are
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  Speaker 1: happy he's dead. But the great Americans know what Lindsey
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  Speaker 1: Graham meant to this country. You're one of them. What
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts two days after his tragic passing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it's an overused term, but he was a
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  Speaker 2: true patriot. I know Lindsey when he was in the House.
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  Speaker 2: He served in the House for eight years. Actually, he
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  Speaker 2: and I joined forces back in two thousands to support
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  Speaker 2: John McKennon, which got Karl roga for me for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. But now, I mean Lindsay was there.
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  Speaker 2: He was just a true American. He loved the country.
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  Speaker 2: I never saw him having a dark moment. I'm like
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  Speaker 2: you and me and ever was Lindsay's emperor. He could
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  Speaker 2: really he could disagree, but he was just a.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful He did lose his temper and he was right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for him, right right?
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  Speaker 2: That was great. That was That was Lindsay at his best.
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  Speaker 2: But many of us have seen Lindsay before, we saw
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  Speaker 2: other versions of that. He is a fighter. That's why
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  Speaker 2: he said he would never ever back down for a
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  Speaker 2: guy who had an easy going personality, he never ever
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  Speaker 2: backed down what he did with Brett Kavanaugh because you know,
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  Speaker 2: so many Republicans hat there looking at the Democrats were
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  Speaker 2: going out of the way to smear this guy, and
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  Speaker 2: at the Republicans like hoping for the best, sitting back,
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  Speaker 2: and then Lindsay jumped in. That turned that all around completely.
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  Speaker 2: That made it impossible for Republicans not to fully support
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  Speaker 2: Brett Kavanaugh. But that was I mean, I was not
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  Speaker 2: surprised that night to see that. I mean, I was
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  Speaker 2: duly I was pleased and met a lot. But having
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  Speaker 2: said that, that to me was, you know, the Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: Grahame that we knew and really appreciated so much. I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't ask for a better guy. I was proud to
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  Speaker 2: call him a friend and he was just a wonderful
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  Speaker 2: human being. Again, say it enough. Sometimes you say it
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  Speaker 2: too much. It sounds like you're overdoing it. You can't.
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  Speaker 2: That's you overdo it when it comes to Undsey Graham.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. And you too. You're a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful guy, great politician, but even a better man. Peter
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  Speaker 1: King has always exceptional job. We love you on Wednesdays.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for this this morning. We'll do it again
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  Speaker 1: very soon. God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: You gots it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, take care buddy, Peter King. Right there, the former
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  Speaker 1: amazing Congressman Homeland secruting.
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